And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not… — Sam Horn Copy Share Image
Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of course is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
So, I would write songs... I sort of loved it and hated it in the sense that I would be like, it's… — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike… — Steven Lake Copy Share Image
“No.' It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on… — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour,… — Maurice Gibb Copy Share Image
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least… — Jana Kramer Copy Share Image
